Meetings Overview

By the Edlink Team

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An Edlink Meeting represents an event for which attendance can be taken.

A meeting can either belong to a class or district. If the class_id is null or missing, the meeting belongs to a district.

Schools use district meetings to track whether a student was present or absent for a day.

Meeting attendance with a class_id is used to track whether a student was in that specific class that day. For example, a student may be present for the school day, but absent for a particular class.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
`id`	`string`	The UUID for the object. $filter operators: `equals` `in` `not in`
`created_date`	`Date`	When the object was first seen by Edlink.
`updated_date`	`Date`	When the object was last changed in Edlink. $filter operators: `equals` `gt` `lt` `gte` `lte`
`type`	`string`	The type of meeting that we're taking attendance for. This is either `day` or `period`.
`properties`	`object`	Non-standard properties that may be of interest to the developer.
`identifiers`	`Identifier[]`	Additional IDs associated with the object.
`class_id`	`string`	The UUID of the associated Class. Only set when `type` = `period`.
`day_id`	`Day`	The calendar day associated on which the meeting takes place.
`period_id`	`Period`	The period for which this meeting took place. Only set when `type` = `period`.

Notes

If type is day, then period_id and class_id will be null.
If type is period, then class_id will be set.
- In this case, period_id is optional and depends on the system.
- Period-level attendance may be taken more than once per day, so period_id is used to distinguish between them.
- Attendance will not appear to be taken more than once per day if the period_id is not set.

JSON Example

{
    "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "created_date": "2021-07-05T20:32:40.454Z",
    "updated_date": "2021-07-12T21:44:23.126Z",
    "properties": {},
    "type": "period",
    "day_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "class_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "period_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}